This poll is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys
that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other
political and social issues. This survey, fielded August 10, 2000, is
a call-back of the August 4-6, 2000, cohort (CBS NEWS MONTHLY POLL #1,
AUGUST 2000 [ICPSR 3109]), and was conducted to assess respondent
views regarding the 2000 presidential campaign. Opinions were
gathered on Texas governor George W. Bush, Vice President Al Gore,
former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, and Connecticut senator Joe
Lieberman. Respondents were asked how much attention they were paying
to the campaign, whether they planned on watching the Democratic Party
convention, which candidate, Bush or Gore, they intended to vote for,
whether that decision was firm, whether the choice of Cheney and
Lieberman as vice-presidential candidates would affect their decision,
and if they were happy with the choices for vice president.
Respondents were queried on the leadership qualities of Bush and Gore
and whether they were trying to bring different groups of Americans
together or divide them. A series of questions was also asked on
whether Lieberman had the right experience to be a good vice
president, whether Gore's selection of Lieberman as his running mate
affected the respondent's opinion of Gore, whether their opinion of
Gore was affected by the Clinton Administration's scandals, and if
choosing Lieberman would help distance Gore from the Clinton
Administration. Respondents were asked if they knew what religion
Cheney and Lieberman were, whether they would vote for a Jewish
president, if America was ready for a Jewish president or vice
president, and whether they were likely to vote for a Jewish
candidate, a non-Jewish candidate, a candidate of their own religion,
or if religion was a factor at all in determining which candidate to
support. Background information on respondents includes age, sex,
race, education, religion, veteran status, voter registration and
participation history, political party, political orientation,
Hispanic descent, marital status, age of children in household, and
family income.

(1) This collection has not been processed by ICPSR
staff. ICPSR is distributing the data and documentation for this
collection in essentially the same form in which they were
received. When appropriate, hardcopy documentation has been converted
to machine-readable form, data files have been converted to
non-platform-specific formats, and variables have been recoded to
ensure respondents' anonymity. (2) The codebook is provided by ICPSR
as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was
developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF
reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how
to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web
site.

The ASCII data file may have been replaced if the previous version was formatted with multiple records per case. A frequency file, which contains the authoritative column locations, has been added to the collection.

2009-07-22 As part of an automated retrofit of some studies in the holdings, ICPSR created the full data product suite for this collection. Note that the ASCII data file may have been replaced if the previous version was formatted with multiple records per case. A frequency file, which contains the authoritative column locations, has also been added.

2001-06-05 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Created variable labels and/or value labels.

Notes

The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

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